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2005 Will See XML's Powerful Next Wave

2005-01-18

Execs watching the XML space say that architects and devs are lining up to learn more about using XML for data integration and doc sharing. The result: 2005's next wave of open XML standards and tools, including XQuery, will cut integration costs and time for building complex data portals and allowing cross-database queries. See what's coming up.

See how a start-up ISV is changing the face of reuse with a spiffy technology for quickly harvesting your legacy Java and .NET assets into reuseable components. See how OSTNet's approach takes long-lead times and cost-overruns out of reuse projects, and get a look at a powerful "open" dual API framework, and OSTnet's 2-Minute Quick Start program.

See how a start-up ISV is changing the face of reuse with a spiffy technology for quickly harvesting your legacy Java and .NET assets into reusable components. OSTNet's API-based reuse framework eliminates long-lead times and cost-overruns. Story also includes a look at OSTnet's "2-Minute Quick Start to Reuse" program.

Implementation of Java's Byte Code Instrumentation (BCI) is setting the stage to enable Java/J2EE architects and developers play a bigger role in end-to-end apps management, according to execs at Wily Technologies -- creators of the BCI. See how BCI is empowering a new array of apps management tools, including data capture, apps diagnostics, code repair and even console viewing.

Implementation of Java's Byte Code Instrumentation (BCI) is setting the stage to enable Java/J2EE architects and developers play a bigger role in end-to-end apps management, according to execs at Wily Technologies -- creators of the BCI. See how BCI is empowering a new array of apps management tools, including data capture, apps diagnostics, code repair and even console viewing.

BEA is open-sourcing the development framework, or runtime, of WebLogic Workshop, BEA's J2EE development tool that looks to combine application development, integration and web services tasks in a single IDE. BEA execs say that they want to speed J2EE skills development industry-wide, but admit that a too-slow JSR standardization process, and an effort to seed the market with more Weblogic-savvy devs were also part of their thinking.

A stunning report from web services analysts Zapthink for portal developers recently predicted that today's web-based portals will prove "wholly inadequate" for loosely coupled, distributed web applications. Read why the solution may be "rich clients," of all things. And why such an approach could save devs lots of time -- and headaches.

Last week, OMG approved a proposed RFC on its Reusable Asset Specification (RAS), which seeks to standardize packaging software into a wide variety of easy-to-implement reusable assets, ranging from templates, codesets, services, APIs and business rules to fully-built applets and applications. See why IBM, Borland, Microsoft and other vendors and end users support RAS.

The secrets to a successful web services project arise from one key insight, says Kirby Turner, a Solution Developer with developer services and integration firm Avanade Inc. That is: A web service is simply "a programmable application logic accessed by using standard Internet protocols." In this article, Turner touches on seven keys to success, including using registries, setting security and even the vexing debate over how much XML hand-coding does a developer really need to know.

Financial services devs have been given some guidelines on how today's web services technology can -- or cannot -- be used for complex and sensitive B2B cash management system integration. Overall, the verdict from some of the most demanding financial firms in the world can be summed up as "OK in some places. Almost more places. Let's stick with it." See why BoA, JPMorgan Chase and others are so optimistic, and what they say still needs to be done.

The secrets to a successful web services project arise from one key insight, says Kirby Turner, a Solution Developer with developer services and integration firm Avanade Inc. That is: A web service is simply "a programmable application logic accessed by using standard Internet protocols." In this article, Turner touches on seven keys to success, including using registries, setting security and even the vexing debate over how much XML hand-coding does a developer really need to know.

The W3C, concerned that some of its work on web services standards could slow, last week began searching for a flexible compromise on the controversial plan to allow only royalty-free technologies to be considered as standards. While W3C insists the new plan keeps the RF preferences in place, the body wants to provide flexibility on a case-by-case basis. See the plan.